Easton Attorney Is Elected Officer Of Trustees' Group Fyi

Attorney Herbert Fishbone of Easton was elected secretary/treasurer of the Hospital Trustee Association of Pennsylvania for 1986 at its recent seventh- annual meeting.

The meeting, which was held at the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center, Dauphin County, was the largest ever for the association, with an attendance of more than 300.

Other officers elected were Robert J. Harbison III of Huntingdon Valley, Montgomery County, chairman of the association, and John T. Hoover of suburban Pittsburgh, vice chairman.

Fishbone has been a trustee of Easton Hospital since 1960 and is a past president of the board. An attorney with the law firm of Fishbone, Refowich & Scheer, he formerly was a trustee for the Lehigh Valley Hospital Planning Council and the Eastern Pennsylvania Comprehensive Health Planning Board.

A member of the state Supreme Court Civil Procedural Rules Committee, Fishbone is a former chairman of the Environmental Law Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and a former member of the bar's House of Delegates. He served as president of the Northampton County Bar Association from 1972 to 1973.

Established in 1979, the Hospital Trustee Association of Pennsylvania brings together representatives of hospital governing boards from 212 hospitals in the state to promote involvement of trustees in health care matters and to assist them in serving their institutions.